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she could run out and buy a pair of shiny stainless steel front loaders.

I suggested she paint them pink with polka dots too. And knowing her

like I do, I was thinking she probably would consider doing just that.

And so, the washer dryers in hot pink with white polka dots were a reality!

Melissa mixed up Emperor's Silk (red) and Old White Chalk Paint to get

a bubblegum pink color. She finished off the job with a polka dot stencil.

Now its the cutest laundry room in Massachusetts!

Her youngest, Madeline, gave her mom her approval on a job well done! Isn't it just the most whimsical thing you could imagine doing to your appliances? Chalk Paint sticks to

metal and so painting your appliances is always an option. Let it cure to get nice and hard and consider sealing it with a polycrylic or clear finish top coat product so it can be almost bullet proof.

Don't use Annie Sloan's soft wax to seal these, as the heat from the dryer would soften the wax so it couldn't cure. If you need to touch them up, its easy enough to do so. I would keep a custom paint color mix inside a baby food jar, or other small airtight container, just in case you need to retouch little marks.

You might remember that I recently got some new French Provincial chairs for my dining room. I saw this photo posted on Melissa's Facebook page.That day they became mine! It was the day before Thanksgiving and I wanted some new chairs.

Here they are, straight from a small business mom, Melissa, who does all this from her home while being a mom to four kids! Phew! And I thought having a shop was kind of hard work. Hope you enjoyed this post on just another amazing thing that

Chalk Paint can do. It really is that good, that amazing, and that reliable. Find out why everyone is going crazy over Annie's paint, and create some magic of your own!

If you don't think you are brave enough to paint a washer or dryer,

rethink painting things, like this basic side table. Done in Old White

Chalk Paint, we finished them using a stencil for the top in a houndstooth

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